En Passant

Eliot Disner beat Bar/Bri,

but, unfortunately, he couldn't beat Lou Gehrig's disease.  Click here.

In a year filled with bad news,

we have the exception of the O.J. Simpson verdict.

West Publishing Company's BAR/BRI and its co-defendant are paying $49 million

to settle the first class action brought on behalf of more than 100,000 law students and attorneys.
West Publishing Company's BAR/BRI has offered $13 million to settle the second class action brought on behalf of more than 100,000 law students and attorneys.
West Publishing Company's BAR/BRI now faces a third class action brought on behalf of more than 100,000 law students and attorneys.

It's about time.

Finally, nonlawyers have their own website.

McGuireWoods fired antitrust superstar Eliot Disner

and now the law is hitting the fan in the $300 million class-action lawsuit against West Publishing Company's Bar/Bri. 
The Wall Street Journal blog.  The American Lawyer story.

The attempted defense by Thomson spokesman John Shaughnessy

is refuted by this letter to the editor in today's New York Times business section.

BAR/BRI's proposed $49,000,000 settlement

for its allegedly illegal, unethical, and anticompetitive acts is meeting more and more opposition.

Shearman & Sterling, the New York law firm defending Bar/Bri for allegedly illegal conduct,

is also defending enemies of the United States.

West Publishing's Bar/Bri is accused of multiple burglaries

and of bribing law school administrators.  Click here.

Plaintiffs accusing Bar/Bri and Kaplan of illegal market division

say that the defendants' $49 million settlement offer is "chump change."